i have a bill to take some of the money out of afghanistan where we re building highways over there, chris, and paying off the bad guys for the security to build the highways. let s take that money and build that highway here in the united states. here in missouri instead of building the highways and the power grid over in afghanistan right now. i guess you re the kind of missouri senator that cares about highways and the other missouri senator is the kind that cares about contraception. thank you. it s good to have a lot of women in the senate. claire mccaskill of missouri. thank you. our new poll shows that suburban women want democrats in charge of congress. 48% say democrats. 37% say republican. that number has completely flipped by the way since the middle of last year. last year they wanted republicans to control congress by a 7-point margin. what does it mean for the republican party? let s bring in michelle bernard, she s an independent and is president of the bernard cente
the american people. congresswoman chu, thank you for your time and i appreciate it, because i know you are both very busy. msnbc will bring you the president s speech when he addresses a joint session of congress. and today, mitt romney is hitting rick perry really hard when it comes to social security. in the debate, perry called it a quote ponzi scheme, and today, governor romney s camp is accusing him of saying that social security should not exist. and today, there is note of how rick perry addressed climate change. just because you have a sense of scientists out there saying it is, and then galileo was laughed at for a while. joining us is michael smerconish and michelle bernard and president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy, and michael, thank you for joining us, and